Procacci courts controversy in ‘Blood’

Producer tackles police brutality at G8

EXCLUSIVE– Italian producer Domenico Procacci is going out on a limb with “Diaz — Don’t Clean Up This Blood,” a hot-button pic about the infamous police brutality against anti-globalization protesters at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy.

The title refers to a phrase written on the wall of the Diaz School in Genoa after a police raid in which dozens of activists were hurt.

The Diaz incident was described during the subsequent trial by one of the police officers as “a butcher’s shop” and is considered the darkest page in the history of Italy’s police force.

Dozens of officers, many of them senior commanders, were accused of brutality and organizing a cover-up.

Daniele Vicari (“The Past Is a Foreign Land”) will direct the multi-language $10 million pic, with shooting due to start in Bucharest and Genoa in June.